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GARMENT-SUPPORTER.

i Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed August 13, 1917. Serial No. 185,820.

To all whom t may concern: i

Be it known that I, JOHN C. CAssIDY, a citizen of the United States, residing at St. Louis, Missouri, have invented new and useful Improvements in Garment-Supporters, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to garment supporters and more particularly/to a device for holding trousers up and preventing the shirt from creeping outat the waist. It has for its objecty to produce a simple and eiobvijates the necessity for wearing a tight belt, or any belt at all, and which is` yieldable to the movement of the body so as` to prevent binding and tearing of the garments and avoid discomfort to the wearer. u

The invention consists in the parts and in the combinations and arrangements of parts hereinafter described and claimed.V

In the accompanying drawing forming part of this specification and wherein like characters referto like parts wherever they occur in the several views, i

Figure 1 is a view illustrating how the device is worn; l p

Fig. 2 is a perspective view, on an enlarged scale, illustrating a practical embodiment ofthe invention; l

Fig. 3 is a cross-section through the shirtengaging buckle, showing how the slide-bar is mounted;

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary vertical section showing how the shirt is engaged in the,` buckle;

Figs. 5 and ,6 are fragmentary detail viewsillustrating one form of the means for fastening the device to the waist-band of the trousers; and l Figs. 7 and 8 are fragmentary views illustrating a modication of the means for fastening the device to the waist-band.

In its preferred form the device comprises a branched supporting member, eithery sub. stantially T-shape or Y-shape, but morev preferably the latter, at the ends of whose arms 1 and 2 are angular extensions 3 and 4, respectively.

As shown in Figs. 2 and 5 the extensions 3 and 4 are turned outward, as at 5, and downward, as at 6, at their ends, and spring tongues 7 are secured to the arms 1 and 2 so as to normally bear with their serrated edge portions 8 against said downturned portions 6.

Secured to the stem portion 9 of the supporting member, as by springs 10, is a slidebuckle 11. This slidebuckle preferably comprises parallel side-bars 12 and substantially V-shape cross-bars 13 and 14 at the ends thereof. Mounted on the side-bars 12, asby bending its end portions about said `sidebars, as shown more clearly in Fig. 3, is a slide-bar 15 which has the same form as the cross-bars 13 and 14, the formation ofthe that the side-bars 12 and cross-bars this way the slide-bar 15 is free to move be-y tween the cross-bars 13 and 14but is prevented from sliding off the buckle frame.`

The supporting member is preferably made of pliablef`metal, for example, semihard aluminum, which may be bent to conform to the wearers waist and hip contour, and yet is stili enough to retain its shape when-so conformed. In the use of the device it isinserted inside the trousers, as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 1, the portions 5 and 6 overhanging the waistband, which latter is engaged by the serrated edge portions 8 of the spring tongues 7 on the inner side, and thereby securely held in place. The lower portion of the shirt below the waist line is gathered and taken in a loop, ,first outward through the opening between the cross-bar 14 and the slide-bar 15 of the buckle, and thence upward and inward through the opening between the slide-bar 15 and the cross-bar 13, as shown in Fig. 4, after which the slide-bar is moved up close to the cross-bar 18. The shirt is vthus securely engaged in the buckle, and most effectively so, owing to the peculiar shape of the -cross-bars and the slide-bar.

In adjusting the device the shirt is en-y gaged with the buckle with the side seam coinciding with the apex of the cross-bar 13, and the supporting member is adjusted on the waist-band so that the crotch 17 of the arms 1 and 2 coincides with the side seam of the trousers. It is. therefore. noted that the peculiar formation of the supporting' member and the shirt-engaging buckle is materially advantageous in facilitating the properk positioning Qf the device.

The supporting member is also preferably formed so that` when it is applied as above described, the stem portion 9 inelines with its lower end slightlv forward of the side seam of the trousers, and its correlation to the buckle is such that the pull on the Patented N 01H19, 1918.

end portions 16 of the slidebar being such body of the same is flush with the 13 and 14. In

l i gzigcinent -with buttons garments is normally in line 'With the side seznns or both of thein, there-by utl'ording comfort, to the wearer, the springs i0 yielding' to the inoveinent of the bodv with equalizinn` etiect and preventing the binding` und tearing ot the garments and et the saine time lioldii'ig` the trousers up and preventing the shirt from creeping1 out.

lt desired e single spring' nier be used in,- stes'id ot tiro showin in which crise it will be attached :it the n'iiddle of the stein 9 ot the supporting' ineinber und niiddle oit the cross-bnr il of the buckle. Se., too, instead ot employing the spring tongues 'l for en-` Fguginn the Waist-bund oit the trousersl the eXtcnsions und l oit the nrins l and ot the supl-)ortinn' ineinber inni." be without rebent end port-ions 5 und (3., but oppositelj,T slotted, es et lil (see Fiss. 7 and Si, for enor the lilre which are secured on the inner side of the unistband.

@briousliny the devices are provided in pairs, rights and lette.y und their ndinit of considerable inodiiicntion oth r then herein pointed out.A without departingtroni the spirit oit the invention es defined by the uppcnded cleiins. and..v therefore ure not liniited to the exact construction herein shown.

lilhzit `is claimed is:

l. ln n device oi the character described, e supporting' ineniber herrin;T a stein portion extending' dounirurcl inside the trousers orer the hip and omluositeliy7 disposed branches secured :it their ends to the Waist-bond ot the trousers on opposite sides ot the side senin, :i buckle secured to the shirt below the weist line. und resilient ineens connectinifQ seid buckle und the lower portion oil tie stein ot said supportine` member.v Wherebj,A the trousers ere nornielltv held up and the shirt down with their side senins substnntinlly in line.

Q. ln n device of the character described, n pliable supporting' ineinler contornmblc 'to the contour ot the wearer et the weist end hip.n said member haring ,ineens 'for engageinen; with the Waist-bund of the trousersI on opposite sides ot the side seein and projectine downward inside the trous over the hip7 n shirt-en Qing buckle haring ine-zins Uopes ci this patent "Washing Lessons for locating the side senin ot the shirt when applied, und n y'ieldnble connection between sind buckle and the lower portion of seid supportinq` ineinber.

lf3. ln n derice of the character described7 n supporting; ineinbcr conformable to the contour of tthe Wenrer at the weist :ind hip, said ineinbcr beiner substantially7 if-shape und having' means at the ends of its firins for engagement- With the weist-band oi" the trousers, the stein of seid ineniber extend-l ine' don'nusrd inside the trousers with the crotch of the urins of seid ineinber coinci ingr with the side seein ot the trousers, e shirt-engaging buckle having; ineens for locating' the side seein of the shirt when op plied, and n resilient connection between said bucl-le end the lower portion of snid stein o-f the supporting' member, whereby the trousers are norninlliT held up and the shirt donn with their side seanis substentielljv7 in line. n l

el. ln n device of the character-described, n supporting; ineinber contorni able to the contour ot the nearer et the Waist and hij, seid ineinber beine; substantially if-'shape und haring' ineens et the ends ot its arins Alor engngeinent with the Waist-band ot' the trousers, the stern of seid meinber extending,- downward inside'the trousers with the crotch ot the nrins ot seid ineniber 'coinciding with the side senin ot the trousers and the lower end et seid stein projecting slightlj)T forward ot the side senin`l n shirt-engaging buckle haring substantially if-shape crossbers und i correspondineli,7 shaped slide-ber, the spexes ot seid crossbnrs and slide-ber beine' upward When the buckle is applied, :indu pair of springs connecting' the lower end portion of the stein of seid supperting,` inernber with the lower corners oin seid b ckle7` seid springs yieldnbl5T holdingseid buckle in nornml correlation to the crotch or, the nrins ot said supporting' ineinber, ihereb;v the trousers ure held up und the shirt down with their side seems substen ti all;7 in line.

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